1879.] A. Cunningham— On Coins from the Akin Posh Tope. 
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Coins of Kanerhi or Kanishka. 
There are six coins of the great Kanishka, with various reverses, of 
which only one is new. Of No. XIV, with the reverse of CAAHNH, I 
possess two specimens myself. The other coins with the reverses of Miiro, 
Athro, and Okro are common. 
The new coin bears a figure of Buddha himself standing to the front, 
with his alms-bowl in his left hand, and his right hand raised in the act 
of teaching. It is inscribed simply BOAAO or Buddha. This coin is unique ; 
but the figure of Buddha has already been made known on his copper coins, 
of which I possess six specimens. Two' of these represent him seated, and 
the others standing, exactly in the same position as on this gold coin.* 
On these copper coins of Kanishka there is a longer inscription reading 
CAKA-MA**BOAA* which I take to be intended for SdJci/a Maha Buddha. 
It will be remembered that two coins of this type were obtained by General 
Ventura in the Great Manikyala Tope. These passed to James Prinsep, 
from whom I obtained one by exchange. 
The coins of Kanerki differ from those of Wema Kadphises in pre¬ 
senting us with Greek characters only ; but in two languages, Greek and 
Indo-Scythian. The former gives only BACIAEYC BACIAEON KANHP- 
KOY, of which the other is clearly a translation with the addition of a single 
word at the end=PAONANO PAO KANHPKI KOPANO. Here Rao- 
nano-Rao is the equivalent of “ King of kings,” and the last word must be 
a title of some kind. Dr. Hoernle thinks that “ the word Korano has not 
yet been satisfactorily explained.” lie mentions that “ Lassen takes it to 
be a Greek corruption of Kushana, expressing some title,” while he himself 
inclines to identify it with the Greek Koiranas a “ chief,” and especially a 
“ military chief.” 
It is evident from these remarks that Dr. Hoernle has not seen my 
identification of the Greek Korano with the Indo-Scythian Rushan, which 
was the name of the tribe to which Kanishka himself belonged. I pointed 
out to Lassen that as Kanishka and Huvishka became Kanerki and Ilover- 
ki in Greek, where sh is changed to r, so the sh of Kushan would be 
changed to r in Greek, and become KOPANO. But my arguments were 
drawn chiefly from the coins of Kozola Kadaphes or Kadphizes who takes 
the title of Zavu (ZAOOY) of the Kushan. Now we learn from the Chi¬ 
nese that Khieu-tseu-Tchi (Kujula) the leader of the one tribe of Kuei-shang, 
absorbed the other tribes and called himself “ King of the Kuei-shang. 
* For both seated and standing figures see my article in the Bengal Asiatic Socie¬ 
ty’s Journal for 1845, p. 430, with its accompanying Plate. Three coins with the stand¬ 
ing figure will be found in ‘ Ariana Antiqua,’ Plate XIII, figures 1, 2, 3, 
